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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  MySpace.com - DeVotchKa - Indie / Rock - www.myspace.com/devotchkamusic
ANTI Europe releases DeVotchKa album How It Ends on August 6th 2007 Tuesday July 17, 2007 European Tour and US Festival Dates ahead DeVotchKa, has signed an exclusive deal with ANTI RECORDS for the European release of their much-praised album How It Ends.
DeVotchKa are four musicians who have quietly become one of the most celebrated bands making music today.
DeVotchKa’s live performances are considered transcendent- with audience members dancing and crying, sometimes in the space of a single song.
www.myspace.com /devotchkamusic   (1524 words)

  
  DeVotchKa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DeVotchKa is a self-described "eastern bloc indie rock band," combining elements of traditional Romani, Greek, Slavic, Spanish, and Mariachi music with indie rock.
Based in Denver, Colorado, the quartet is made up of Nick Urata, who sings and plays theremin, guitar, bouzouki, piano, and trumpet; Tom Hagerman, who plays violin, accordion, and piano; Jeanie Schroder, who sings and plays sousaphone and upright bass; and Shawn King, who plays percussion and trumpet.
DeVotchKa has opened for The Dresden Dolls, Regina Spektor, Calexico, and 16 Horsepower, among others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DeVotchKa   (183 words)

  
 San Francisco Bay Guardian Arts and Entertainment
But while DeVotchKa were backing showgirls like Dita Von Teese and Catherine D'Lish two years ago, bandleader Nick Urata had bigger things in mind.
DeVotchKa's blend of gypsy instrumentation (accordion, bouzouki, violin), mariachi horns, and flamenco guitar is perfectly suited for burlesque's vintage spectacle, but the Denver band exude theatricality all on their own.
DeVotchKa's two albums, 2000's Supermelodrama and last year's Una Volta (both on Cicero Recordings), swell in lush, filmic sepia tones, spiked with dervishlike campfire rave-ups, softly strummed ballads, and punk-infused anguish.
www.sfbg.com /38/52/art_music_devotchka.html   (609 words)

  
 Montreal Mirror : Music : Devotchka
Devotchka is a quartet, with Urata on vocals, theremin, guitars, piano and trumpet, Tom Hagerman on violin, accordion and piano, Jeanie Schroder on sousaphone, upright bass and vocals and Shawn King on drums and trumpet.
Devotchka's "Eastern bloc indie rock" is working, however, a result of the independent band's tireless touring and showcasing.
If Devotchka had to choose one "old country," it would be Putin country - their moniker means "young girl" in Russian.
www.montrealmirror.com /2005/041405/music4.html   (370 words)

  
 CD Baby: DEVOTCHKA: Una Volta
Devotchka truly has a way of manifesting the woes and wiles of humanity...
DeVotchKa has been a band to watch for some time now, but with Una Volta they truly have hit a musical pinnacle...
DeVotchKa counteracts such reckless conduct by issuing consistently beguiling sonic tapestries that weave together all the colorful threads of Eastern European music, American folk, postmodern jazz, classical and mariachi.
cdbaby.com /cd/devotchka   (1153 words)

  
 Boulder Weekly | Buzz | OverTones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Local band DeVotchKa takes its name from the famous and controversial Anthony Burgess novel and Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange–a story that confronts, in gloriously vivid and violent colors, the complicated intricacies of social morality through a series of contradictions.
DeVotchKa singer and multi-instrumentalist (mostly guitar) Nick Urata is somewhat vague about the relation of the film to the band, but perhaps it is this open-endedness–the allowing for the unexpected, the embracing of all possibilities, yes, perhaps even the contradictory–that makes the ultimate connection between band and film.
Showcasing the theremin, bouzouki, bowed vibes, vibraphone, glockenspiel and tenor triangle, DeVotchKa could be thought of as the Island of Misfit Instruments.
www.boulderweekly.com /archive/091604/overtones2.html   (712 words)

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